Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced by Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush and named after Till, comes 120 years after Congress first considered anti-lynching legislation and after dozens of similar efforts were defeated. The measure was approved 410 to 4 on Wednesday in the House and now goes to the White House, where President Donald Tru

For Immediate Release: Contact Info: February 26, 2020 Mariel Saez 202-225-3130 ORIGINAL SOURCE - https://www.majorityleader.gov/content/hoyer-floor-remarks-emmett-till-antilynching-act WASHINGTON, DC – House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke on the House Floor today in support of the Emmett T

For Immediate Release: Contact Info: February 26, 2020 Mariel Saez 202-225-3130 ORIGINAL SOURCE - https://www.majorityleader.gov/content/hoyer-remarks-press-conference-emmett-till-antilynching-act WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD) spoke at a press conference o

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This undated file photo shows Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, whose body was found in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Miss., Aug. 31, 1955. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — In 1900, 120 years ago this week, the nation’s only black congressman stood on the House floor to read an unprecedented piece of anti-lynching legislation to a roomful of white faces. Just over a year earlier, the congressman, Rep. George Henry White, R-N.C., had wi